Head of Data and Insights

Snap Inc. is a camera company. We believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Our products empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

Some core features we build and maintain include Snapchat’s Camera, Creative Tools, Maps, Chat, Memories, Stories, Discover, Games, and Minis. Our Infrastructure teams deliver an innovative and cost-efficient platform that ensures Snapchat is the fastest way to communicate with your friends, no matter where you are in the world. We have one of the fastest growing digital ad platforms, and our Monetization teams drive measurable returns for advertisers through novel ad formats like Augmented Reality. As a Snap Engineering team member, you’ll help us build the future of communication.

We’re looking for a Head of Engineering for Data & Insights team to join our team!

What you’ll do:

• Lead strategy, execution, and end results of the end-to-end data ecosystem at Snap and enable data-informed decision making across the company.

• Develop organizational-level goals, drive the technical and organizational roadmap for the engineering team while collaborating on the product and business on strategies.

• Collaborate with and influence Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Ops, Finance, Product, and partner Engineering teams such as Infrastructure Growth, Camera, Creative Tools, and Messaging.

• Build an execution machine, iterate quickly without compromising quality, and raise the bar on operational excellence.

• Own key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective engineering.

• Build and grow a team of exceptional software engineers, data scientists, machine learning engineers and technical leaders.

• Own the complete data strategy and work with our executive leadership team to improve decision making at Snap. 

• Directly responsible for several top-line goals that directly impact our community and our business, The job is challenging, meaningful, and fun

Minimum qualifications:

• BS/BA in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 8+ years of management experience.

• Experience with mobile apps development and operating large-scale backend services.

• Track record of building, growing, and mentoring high performing large teams.

• Passionate about problem-solving with strong technical communication skills and desire to collaborate with others.

Preferred qualifications:

• Extensive experience (10+ years) working on well-recognized consumer products influencing the life of hundreds of millions users.

• Experience managing 100+ engineers and experience with managing managers and complex cross-functional dependencies.

• Track record of building new or hyper-growth products succeeding at a large scale. Familiar with agile, iterative, and growth-driven product development.

• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments.

• Experience with data engineering, data science and ML technologies.

• Relevant experience with Internet-scale infrastructure.

• Have a passion to learn new things, develop people, and make a business impact at a very large scale.

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and contact us at accommodations-ext@snap.com.